Advisor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Martin Wollschlaeger, Technische Universität Dresden Subject Specialist: Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Klaus Kabitzsch, Technische Universität Dresden Second Reporter: Dr. Dimitris Kiritsis, Ecole polytechnique federale de Lausanne Chairman of the commission: Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Rainer G. Spallek, Technische Universität Dresden Member of the commission: Prof. Dr. rer. n...

Nove oblikoslovne rešitve (ali manko le-teh), ki jih je prinesla reforma opere v glasbeno dramo, burijo duhove že od samega nastanka zrelih Wagnerjevih del (Nibelungov prstan, Tristan in Izolda, Mojstri pevci nürnberški, Parsifal). Najbolj slavno formulacijo očitka dozdevne skladateljeve pomanjkljive veščine obvladovanja velikih form artikuliral Friedrich Nietzsche, Primeru Wagner poda diagnozo...

Berwald and Wagner manifolds are two important classes of spaces in Finsler geometry. They are closely related to each other via the conformal change of the metric. After discussing the basic definitions and the elements of the theory we present general methods to construct examples of them.

This paper reports on a two-task principal-agent experiment in which only one task is contractible. The principal can either offer a piece-rate contract or a (voluntary) bonus to the agent. Bonus contracts strongly outperform piece rate contracts. Many principals reward high efforts on both tasks with substantial bonuses. Agents anticipate this and provide high efforts on both tasks. In contras...